Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Interpretation
Maintain a clear and open mind while nurturing your body with positive energy.
This quote emphasizes the importance of mental clarity and physical well-being. Morihei Ueshiba suggests that we should strive to clear our minds of unnecessary thoughts, akin to the vastness of the sky and ocean, and fill our bodies with positive energy, wisdom, and enlightenment, leading to a holistic approach to life and self-improvement.
In practice
In a meditation workshop where participants are encouraged to maintain mental clarity.
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith in the power of purification and faith in the power of life itself. It is not a type of rigid discipline or empty asceticism. It is a path that follows natural principles, principles, that must be applied to daily living. The Art of Peace should be practiced from the time you rise to greet the morning to the time you retire at night.
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.
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Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.
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Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.
Do all the other things, the ambitious things - travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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